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Muskox · week 10 · 1980

104 yards, and a road nobody would recommend

Ruth Fairbanks, features

Ivan Stanhope QB
Muskox

Ivan Stanhope had 104 yards. He was cut twice before his twenty-fourth birthday. He keeps his father's work gloves in his locker, which his teammates have stopped remarking on. It is a long way from Cattaraugus Falls, New York, and he did not come the easy way.

The ledger, after four seasons: 1,791 yards, twenty-three scores. There was a 1,473-yard year in there. This is not it.

He is twenty-four. He is the first man in the building most mornings.

Muskox are 3-6 through ten weeks. Wendell Doggett is new. There is one year left on the deal.

This feature ran in the paper in week 10 of 1980. The rest of the season is there too.

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